"(better known in the English-speaking world as ""Twinkle Twinkle Little Star""), the French nursery rhymes ""Au clair de la lune"", and ""J'ai du bon tabac"" (the piano plays the same melody upside down), the popular anthem ""Partant pour la Syrie"", as well as the aria ""Una voce poco fa"" from Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" can also be heard. The musical joke in this movement, according to Leonard Bernstein's narration on his recording of the work with the New York Philharmonic, is that the musical pieces quoted are the fossils of Saint-Saëns's time. Two pianos and cello: the lushly romantic"
"Schumann, Liszt and Wagner. His best-known pupil, Gabriel Fauré, recalled in old age: Saint-Saëns further enlivened the academic regime by writing, and composing incidental music for, a one-act farce performed by the students (including André Messager). He conceived his best-known piece, ""The Carnival of the Animals"", with his students in mind, but did not finish composing it until 1886, more than twenty years after he left the Niedermeyer school. In 1864 Saint-Saëns caused some surprise by competing a second time for the Prix de Rome. Many in musical circles were puzzled by his decision to enter the competition again, now"
"delicacy, humour and charm with a form of tarantella. For Gallois the Clarinet Sonata is the most important of the three: he calls it ""a masterpiece full of impishness, elegance and discreet lyricism"" amounting to ""a summary of the rest"". The work contrasts a ""doleful threnody"" in the slow movement with the finale, which ""pirouettes in 4/4 time"", in a style reminiscent of the 18th century. The same commentator calls the Bassoon Sonata ""a model of transparency, vitality and lightness"", containing humorous touches but also moments of peaceful contemplation. The composer's most famous work, ""The Carnival of the Animals"" (1887),"
"Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), ""Danse macabre"" (1874), the opera ""Samson and Delilah"" (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third (""Organ"") Symphony (1886) and ""The Carnival of the Animals"" (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri,"
"The Animals' Christmas The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo studio album and the first Christmas album by vocalist Art Garfunkel, released in December 1985 by Columbia Records. The album was written by Jimmy Webb and features vocals by Garfunkel, Amy Grant, and Wimbledon King's College Choir. ""The Animals' Christmas"" tells the story of the Nativity of Jesus from the perspective of the animals present. The album received positive reviews, with one writer calling it ""one of the best Christmas albums of the '80s."" During the early 1980s, Jimmy Webb began writing the songs that would become ""The Animals' Christmas"","
"when he was featured as a soloist in a nationally televised New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. On that famous telecast, Karr performed ""The Swan"" from ""The Carnival of the Animals"" by Camille Saint-Saëns. Karr also recorded the piece with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. He has since appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and with all the major orchestras of Australia. He has premiered new works written for him"
"of the Animals"" under Sir John Barbirolli. Their duo repertoire was characterised by such pieces as Richard Addinsell's ""Warsaw Concerto"" arranged for two pianos, and their own arrangements of the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's ""Eugene Onegin"", Khachaturian's ""Sabre Dance"" and Waltz from ""Masquerade"", Debussy's ""Clair de lune"", ""Arabesque No. 1"" and ""Golliwog's Cakewalk"", and Strauss waltzes and polkas. After Marjan Rawicz's death in 1970, Walter Landauer continued playing as a solo pianist, until his own death in 1983. Landauer was also a composer, whose works include ""Vienna Concerto"" for piano and orchestra and short pieces such as ""Gamine"", ""Summer Rain"" and"
"of Rome"" was re-arranged in 1993 by Bruce Coughlin, who reduced the four-movement piece by cutting the second movement and trimming sections of the third and fourth movements. The piece was recorded on March 28, 1994. The second recording involved ""Symphony No. 5"", ""Carnival of the Animals"", and ""Pomp and Circumstance"", on April 25, 1994. ""Carnival of the Animals, Finale"" uses two pianos played by Gail Niwa and Philip Sabransky. ""Pomp and Circumstance"" was arranged by Peter Schickele and features the Chicago Symphony Chorus and soprano soloist Kathleen Battle. The next recording took place on April 24, 1995 for ""Piano"
"one of the most-performed works of Paris opera. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was born in Paris and was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire when he was thirteen. When he finished the Conservatory, he became an organist at the church of Saint-Merri, and later at ""La Madeleine"". His opera, ""Samson et Dalila"" (1877), was in the grand romantic tradition, though the music was new and innovative. He also won fame in Paris for ""Danse Macabre"", the opera ""The Carnival of the Animals"" (1877), and his ""Symphonie No. 3 ""avec orgue"""" in C minor, op. 78 (1886). Société Nationale de Musique, Claude Debussy"
"the French tradition that threatened to be engulfed by Wagnerian influences and created the environment that nourished his successors"". Since the composer's death writers sympathetic to his music have expressed regret that he is known by the musical public for only a handful of his scores such as ""The Carnival of the Animals"", the Second Piano Concerto, the Organ Symphony, ""Samson et Dalila"", ""Danse macabre"" and the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Among his large output, Nicholas singles out the Requiem, the Christmas Oratorio, the ballet ""Javotte"", the Piano Quartet, the Septet for trumpet, piano and strings, and the First Violin"
"the first chief conductor of the orchestra, was distantly related to Loriot). His narrative version of Camille Saint-Saëns' ""The Carnival of the Animals"" was repeatedly performed by Loriot with the Scharoun Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble consisting of musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. As a director, Loriot staged the operas ""Martha"" (Staatsoper Stuttgart, 1986) and ""Der Freischütz"" (Ludwigsburg, 1988). In 1983 Radio Bremen produced the broadcast ""Loriot's 60th birthday"" for the broadcast station ARD on the occasion of Loriot's 60th birthday. In 1988 he received the Bavarian Film Award, Special Prize, and in 1993 the Bavarian Film Award, Honorary"
"is a musician who has created music with humpback whales, ""Megaptera novaeangliae."" Both of these examples are discussed in greater detail below. Composers have evoked or imitated animal sounds in compositions including Jean-Philippe Rameau's ""The Hen"" (1728), Camille Saint-Saëns's ""Carnival of the Animals"" (1886), Olivier Messiaen's ""Catalogue of the Birds"" (1956–58) and Pauline Oliveros's ""El Relicario de los Animales"" (1977). Other examples include Alan Hovhaness's ""And God Created Great Whales"" (1970), George Crumb's ""Vox Balaenae"" (Voice of the Whale) (1971) and Gabriel Pareyon's ""Invention over the song of the Vireo atriccapillus"" (1999) and ""Kha Pijpichtli Kuikatl"" (2003). The Indian zoomusicologist,"
"The Lamb (Tavener) The Lamb is a choral work by British composer John Tavener composed in 1982. It is a setting to music of the William Blake poem ""The Lamb"" from Blake's collection of poems ""Songs of Innocence"". It is one of Tavener's best known works. ""The Lamb"" was performed shortly after its composition at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge on Christmas Eve 1982. The service was broadcast to a large international TV and radio audience and this gave the piece widespread exposure. ""The Lamb"" featured in the soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino's film"
"Johannes Brahms, whose father was a double bass player, wrote many difficult and prominent parts for the double bass in his symphonies. Richard Strauss assigned the double bass daring parts, and his symphonic poems and operas stretch the instrument to its limits. ""The Elephant"" from Camille Saint-Saëns' ""The Carnival of the Animals"" is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing ""The Swan"" (originally written for the cello) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony features a solo for the double"
"The work is one of the best-known pieces by the composer, and is often associated with two other works in the context of children's music education: Saint-Saëns' ""The Carnival of the Animals"" and Prokofiev's ""Peter and the Wolf"". This work, in the composer's own words, ""is affectionately inscribed to the children of John and Jean Maud: Humphrey, Pamela, Caroline and Virginia, for their edification and entertainment"". ""The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"" is scored for symphony orchestra: The work is based on the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's incidental music to Aphra Behn's ""Abdelazer"", and is structured, in accordance with"
"""Pictures at an Exhibition"", later orchestrated by many composers including Maurice Ravel. The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns wrote many short pieces of program music which he called ""Tone Poems"". His most famous are probably the Danse Macabre and several movements from ""the Carnival of the Animals"". The composer Paul Dukas is perhaps best known for his tone poem ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"", based on a tale from Goethe. Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was German composer Richard Strauss. His symphonic poems include ""Death and Transfiguration"" (portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven), ""Don"
"his ""Musical Joke"". A century later, Saint-Saëns composed ""The Carnival of the Animals"" as a musical joke for his friends; several of the movements contain musical parody, radically changing the tempo and instrumentation of well-known melodies. Bartók's ""Concerto for Orchestra"" (1943) features the appearance (followed by a trombone raspberry) of a theme from Shostakovich's ""Leningrad"" Symphony. In theatrical music, the 18th century ballad opera, which included satirical songs set to popular melodies of the time, involved some of the broadest musical parodies. In ""Così fan tutte"" Mozart parodied the elaborate solemnities of opera seria arias. His own ""The Magic Flute"""
"based on a children's book about the Nativity of Jesus by Anne Thaxter Eaton. Garfunkel became interested in the project because he felt it was ""born out of the love of a musical person to make music."" In his 1989 book, ""Still Water: Prose Poems"", Garfunkel wrote about his experience with the project. ""The Animals' Christmas"" was recorded between December 23, 1984 and December 12, 1985. The orchestra was recorded at CTS Studios in Wembley, England. The boys' choir was recorded at St. Paul's Church in Wimbledon, England. Vocals were recorded at Air Studios in Montserrat, West Indies. Amy Grant's"
"""Fossils"" movement of ""The Carnival of the Animals"". ""Danse macabre"" is scored for an obbligato violin and an orchestra consisting of one piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B, two bassoons; four horns in G and D, two trumpets in D, three trombones, one tuba; a percussion section that includes timpani, xylophone, bass drum, cymbals and triangle; one harp and strings. When ""Danse macabre"" was first performed it was not well received. The piece caused widespread consternation: the scholar Roger Nichols mentions adverse reaction to ""the deformed ""Dies irae"" plainsong"", the ""horrible screeching from solo violin"", the use"
"November 11, 2014, ""Carnival of the Animals,"" Russell's third album with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, was released. Mr. Russell's own orchestration of Camille Saint-Saëns' classic ""Carnival of the Animals"" is featured on the album"","" along with other animal-inspired classics like ""Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks"" and ""Flight of the Bumblebee."" September 11, 2015 marked the release of ""American Originals,"" Russell's fourth album with the Cincinnati Pops, is the first ""live"" recording of the Pops (during concerts in January 2015) and features icons of the American folk and roots music scene such as Rosanne Cash, Joe Henry, Over the Rhine (band),"
"The Elephant from Saint-Saëns' Le Carnaval des Animaux for scordatura Double Bass and string orchestra. In 1987 Lowell Liebermann wrote his Sonata for Contrabass and Piano Op. 24. Fernando Grillo wrote the ""Suite No. 1"" for double bass (1983/2005). Jacob Druckman wrote a piece for solo double bass entitled ""Valentine"". US double bass soloist and composer Bertram Turetzky (born 1933) has performed and recorded more than 300 pieces written by and for him. He writes chamber music, baroque music, classical, jazz, renaissance music, improvisational music and world music US minimalist composer Philip Glass wrote a prelude focused on the lower"
"Nymphs and Shepherds Nymphs and Shepherds is a song by the English composer Henry Purcell, from the play ""The Libertine"" by Thomas Shadwell. When the play was first performed, in 1675, the accompanying music was by William Turner. Purcell's music was first used in either 1692 or 1695; the musicologist Ian Spink has concluded that the latter year is the more probable, although the earlier date is often cited. ""The Libertine"" is a version of the Don Juan legend. The song ""Nymphs and shepherds, come away"" occurs in a pastoral interlude at the beginning of Act IV, after an orchestral"
"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (""""L."" 86""), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was first performed in Paris on 22 December 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret. The flute solo was played by Georges Barrère. Debussy's work later provided the basis for the ballet ""Afternoon of a Faun"" choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky and a later version by Jerome Robbins. The composition was inspired by the poem ""L'après-midi d'un faune"" by Stéphane Mallarmé. It is one of"
"lifetime achievement award for his composition in ""The Wild Bunch"" which celebrated its 40th anniversary. It was received by his daughter Claudia Fielding. Bibliography Jerry Fielding Joshua Itzhak Feldman (June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980), known professionally as Jerry Fielding, was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969) and ""Straw Dogs"" (1971). Jerry Fielding was"
"played with accompaniment on only one piano. This is the only movement from ""The Carnival of the Animals"" that the composer allowed to be played in public during his lifetime. He thought the remaining movements were too frivolous and would damage his reputation as a serious composer. Because of its slow tempo and mostly legato performance indications, the movement is suitable for performance on the theremin and has joined Sergei Rachmaninoff's ""Vocalise"" and Jules Massenet's ""Méditation"" from his opera ""Thaïs"" among the classical works central to the theremin repertoire. ""Le cygne"" is often known as ""The Dying Swan"", after a"
"form of street entertainment. Symphony No. 82 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 82 in C major, Hoboken 1/82, is the first of the six Paris Symphonies (numbers 82-87) written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as the Bear Symphony. The symphony was one of a series of six symphonies commissioned in 1786 by the Concert de la Loge Olympique, a popular concert subscription in Paris (hence the name for the series as a whole). Like the other Paris symphonies, ""the Bear"" was written for the largest orchestral ensemble that Haydn had written for up until that time, including reinforced woodwind"
"from the first movement, "", through portraits of elephants and donkeys (""Those with Long Ears"") to a finale reprising many of the earlier motifs. Several of the movements are of humorous intent: In 1949, Ogden Nash wrote a set of humorous verses to accompany each movement for a Columbia Masterworks recording of ""Carnival of the Animals"" conducted by Andre Kostelanetz. They were recited on the original album by Noël Coward, dubbed over or spliced in between sections of the previously recorded music. The poems are now often included when the work is performed, though usually recited before each piece. The"
"music from the opera in the third and fifth movements, it is unknown if the critical edition score will include this material. Catfish Row Catfish Row, originally titled Suite from Porgy and Bess, is an orchestral work by George Gershwin based upon music from his famous opera ""Porgy and Bess"". Gershwin completed the work in 1936 and it premiered at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on January 21 of that year, with Alexander Smallens conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gershwin played the piano part, including the piano solo in the opening moments. This piece preserves some of the darkest and"
"Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, Denver. David Cornwall David Randolph Cornwall (May 18, 1937 – November 7, 2006) was an American composer and systems engineer. He wrote music for piano, horns, woodwinds and orchestra, composing more than 40 works in a span of less than five years leading up to the time of his death in November 2006. Cornwall was born in Denver, Colorado. Trained as a trombonist, Cornwall performed professionally with the New York City Opera and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera, where he performed in the world premiere of The Ballad of"
"ten ""pictures"" are present, leaving out ""Gnomus"", ""Tuileries"", and ""Cattle"", and all the Promenades are omitted except for the last one, which is used in place of the first. The next orchestration was undertaken by the British conductor Henry Wood in 1915. He recorded a few sections of his arrangement on a pair of acoustic Columbia 78rpm discs in 1920. However, he withdrew his version when Maurice Ravel's orchestration was published, and banned every public performance in the 1930s in deference to Ravel's work. Wood's arrangement has also been recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Nicholas Braithwaite and issued"
"its story, while Carlos rearranged the music with a ""MIDI orchestra"", her first venture using the digital interface. The album's second side also contains a humorous adaptation of ""The Carnival of the Animals"" by Camille Saint-Saëns titled ""The Carnival of the Animals–Part II"", with Yankovic providing funny poems for each of the featured animals in the style of poet Ogden Nash, who did similar for the original. Released in October 1988, ""Peter and the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals–Part II"" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary of ""Switched-On Bach"","
"(""On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring""), Handel (""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale""), Respighi (""The Birds""), Rimsky-Korsakov (""Snow Maidens""), Dvořák, Saint-Saens (""Carnival of the Animals""), Vivaldi (""Concerto in A"", The Cuckoo), and Gustav Mahler (""First Symphony"", where the cuckoo sings perfect fourths instead of the usual major third or minor third). Less commonly imitated are the great tit (Anton Bruckner's ""Fourth Symphony""), the goldfinch (Vivaldi), linnet (Couperin, Haydn and Rachmaninov), robin (Peter Warlock), swallow (Dvorak and Tchaikovsky), wagtail (Benjamin Britten), and magpie (in a Mussorgsky song). Dvorak celebrated many other kinds of bird, including the stock dove, skylark, and house"
"private concerts on Shrove Tuesday, and on this occasion in 1886 (9 March) the first performance of the musical ""divertissement"", ""Carnival of the Animals"" by Saint-Saëns was given, in which Lebouc played the well-known cello solo, ""The Swan"". Charles Lebouc Charles Joseph Lebouc (22 December 1822, Besançon – 6 March 1893, Hyères) was a French cellist. He attended the Conservatoire in Paris where he studied under Olive Charlier Vaslin (1794–1889) and then Louis Norblin, and later became a cello professor. He played chamber music. He composed some pieces for the cello with piano accompaniment and also wrote ""Méthode complete et"